Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by rbanffy » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:21 PM UTC

mFixman wrote: post #59

frutiger wrote: post #12

I just wish Quanta Magazine would do a print edition so I can subscribe. Sadly it does not seem part of their mission: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blo... .

Same. I find it hard to read long and complicated articles from a screen, and I would pay a lot for a weekly subscription to dead-tree magazine Quanta. Right now I print articles I'm interested in, which is far from the most efficient solution.

I’d be happy with a PDF version with good layout.

I get Communications of the ACM, IEEE’s Computer and Software that way.

But I still miss BYTE. The articles are half the fun only - the ads painted a colourful portrait of the computer scene back then.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by kingkongjaffa » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:28 PM UTC

Not technical but https://www.themarginalian.org/ is a fabulous online publication.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by mr_mitm » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:48 PM UTC

hackandthink wrote: post #60

Somebody has to pay for it: Quanta magazine is financed by the Simons Foundation (Hedge Fund billionaire). Noema seems to be a pet project of Nicolas Berggruen (Hedge Fund billionaire). The name sounded familiar: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen#Berggruen_be...

I haven't heard of Jim Simons before, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. He sounds like quite a character. I, too, would stop wearing socks and fund a non-profit science magazine if I had a billion dollars.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by walthamstow » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:54 PM UTC

It's not going to be that relevant to many people here, but there is a longform soccer writing magazine called The Blizzard which is excellent. It's edited by Jonathan Wilson of 'Inverting the Pyramid' fame.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by alan-stark » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

wmwragg wrote: post #55

I really enjoy the Resurgence & Ecologist[1]. I also like the IEEE Spectrum[2] [1] https://www.resurgence.org/ [2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/

+1 for IEEE Spectrum. I recently stumbled upon print issue archive from 2010-2012 and was delighted by their coverage of private space flight and 3D printing. To me, Spectrum is an early high-level overview of interesting technology.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by mikeodds » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

mr_mitm wrote: post #63

hackandthink wrote: post #60

Somebody has to pay for it: Quanta magazine is financed by the Simons Foundation (Hedge Fund billionaire). Noema seems to be a pet project of Nicolas Berggruen (Hedge Fund billionaire). The name sounded familiar: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen#Berggruen_be...

I haven't heard of Jim Simons before, so I looked him up on Wikipedia. He sounds like quite a character. I, too, would stop wearing socks and fund a non-profit science magazine if I had a billion dollars.

If you want some further reading on him, the man who solved the market, is not a bad read

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889703-the-man-who-sol...

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by SSLy » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

wahnfrieden wrote: post #4

https://libcom.org

At least they're not tankies, I guess.

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by akudha » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:22 PM UTC

I don’t have a link to share, but I’d like to thank OP and every comment in this thread. There are some gems here. Of course one can google, but when something is recommended by a human, and is purely based on merit, it is much more trustworthy than a random site filled with ads looking to make a buck.

In short, HN is awesome

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by ArtWomb » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

hackandthink wrote: post #60

Somebody has to pay for it: Quanta magazine is financed by the Simons Foundation (Hedge Fund billionaire). Noema seems to be a pet project of Nicolas Berggruen (Hedge Fund billionaire). The name sounded familiar: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen#Berggruen_be...

Quality is evident immediately from the lead story on Noema: "A Parliament of Earthlings". Fascinating read for a Sunday morning on AI efforts to enhance whale conservation (with plenty of knowing nods to Star Trek IV). At least the first half of the article felt that way. But instead the article just sort of devolves into a rolling argument for a "Gaia 2.0" hypothesis. Curious, I delved a bit deeper. And what I found is a kind of supremacy of faith in our ability to delivery planet-scale geoengineering. Terraforming Planet Earth, in a nutshell ;)

https://www.noemamag.com/planetary-sapience/

Re: Ask HN: More magazines like Quanta and Noema?

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Post by macshaggy » Sun, Mar 12, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

pncnmnp wrote: post #22

If you're interested in retro stuff, I highly recommend checking out Byte Magazine's archive at https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm . They have issues dating from 1975 to 1994, and the search functionality is pretty good. While not all of their content is of high quality, there are some fascinating gems hidden in there. For instance, their February 1992 issue has a section on Archie, one of the earliest i…

I miss Byte and Nybble mags. There are no good programming/computer mags that take you into the software and teaching programming at different levels.

Not just beginner, intermediate, etc., but software and low level hardware for specific chip sets.

Raspberry PI mag is the closest thing. Maybe I should just downgrade my desktop to a RPI and enjoy the hobby again. Maybe, build a robo-dog/cat/creature.